Alphatec Holdings, Inc. Appoints Executives Rohit M. Desai and Dirk Kuyper to Its Board of Directors

CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 5, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATEC), a leading medical device company focused on the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders, announced today that Rohit M. Desai and Dirk Kuyper, Alphatec’s current President and CEO, were elected to Alphatec’s board of directors. The appointments increase Alphatec’s board of directors in size from seven directors to nine, and increases the number of independent directors from four to five.